backport of commit 926b688

internal/terraform/context_apply_deferred_test.go

@@ -2915,7 +2915,7 @@ import {
 				wantDeferred: make(map[string]ExpectedDeferred),
 				wantDiagnostic: func(diags tfdiags.Diagnostics) bool {
 					for _, diag := range diags {
-						if diag.Description().Summary == "Use of import for_each in an invalid context" {
+						if diag.Description().Summary == "Resource has no configuration" {
 							return true
 						}
 					}

internal/terraform/node_resource_validate.go

@@ -572,20 +572,7 @@ func (n *NodeValidatableResource) validateImportTargets(ctx EvalContext) tfdiags
 			return diags
 		}
 
-		// Resource config might be nil here since we are also validating config generation.
-		expanded := n.Config != nil && (n.Config.ForEach != nil || n.Config.Count != nil)
-
 		if imp.Config.ForEach != nil {
-			if !expanded {
-				diags = diags.Append(&hcl.Diagnostic{
-					Severity: hcl.DiagError,
-					Summary:  "Use of import for_each in an invalid context",
-					Detail:   "Use of for_each in import requires a resource using count or for_each.",
-					// FIXME: minor issue, but this points to the for_each expression rather than for_each itself.
-					Subject: imp.Config.ForEach.Range().Ptr(),
-				})
-			}
-
 			forEachData, _, forEachDiags := newForEachEvaluator(imp.Config.ForEach, ctx, true).ImportValues()
 			diags = diags.Append(forEachDiags)
 			if forEachDiags.HasErrors() {