diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/stores/mr_widget_store.js b/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/stores/mr_widget_store.js
index 473e8a936fd854a6f77c370328ebfc4c7a81f856..9ce5448d86e598318bc758bdc1e7a403823f8c42 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/stores/mr_widget_store.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/stores/mr_widget_store.js
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ export default class MergeRequestStore {
       this.availableAutoMergeStrategies,
     );
     this.ffOnlyEnabled = data.ff_only_enabled;
+    this.ffMergePossible = data.ff_merge_possible;
     this.isRemovingSourceBranch = this.isRemovingSourceBranch || false;
     this.mergeRequestState = data.state;
     this.isOpen = this.mergeRequestState === STATUS_OPEN;
diff --git a/app/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity.rb b/app/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity.rb
index cef3f4555df72dae418ac1a05efcfa5e75d31a33..3374cd4672929898e3213fd9bdaae8b4c2a401e8 100644
--- a/app/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity.rb
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ class MergeRequestPollWidgetEntity < Grape::Entity
     merge_request.project.merge_requests_ff_only_enabled
   end
 
+  expose :ff_merge_possible?, as: :ff_merge_possible
+
   # User entities
   expose :merge_user, using: UserEntity
 
diff --git a/ee/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/mixins/ready_to_merge.js b/ee/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/mixins/ready_to_merge.js
index 36b9b8d828aafbe0f2bfe5f27d232776fb73f250..bd6040f162bbb73cff992cf7452ffb7576df2dea 100644
--- a/ee/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/mixins/ready_to_merge.js
+++ b/ee/app/assets/javascripts/vue_merge_request_widget/mixins/ready_to_merge.js
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ export default {
     },
     shouldShowMergeImmediatelyDropdown() {
       if (this.preferredAutoMergeStrategy === MT_MERGE_STRATEGY) {
-        return true;
+        return !this.mr.ffOnlyEnabled || this.mr.ffMergePossible;
       }
 
       return this.isPipelineActive && !this.state.onlyAllowMergeIfPipelineSucceeds;
diff --git a/ee/spec/frontend/vue_merge_request_widget/components/states/mr_widget_ready_to_merge_spec.js b/ee/spec/frontend/vue_merge_request_widget/components/states/mr_widget_ready_to_merge_spec.js
index f88f253cd5e9ca2649050735bade9a65772737f4..5e8367212d4b9aa75735a4877a14717666bd15a5 100644
--- a/ee/spec/frontend/vue_merge_request_widget/components/states/mr_widget_ready_to_merge_spec.js
+++ b/ee/spec/frontend/vue_merge_request_widget/components/states/mr_widget_ready_to_merge_spec.js
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ describe('ReadyToMerge', () => {
     isMergeAllowed: true,
     onlyAllowMergeIfPipelineSucceeds: false,
     ffOnlyEnabled: false,
+    ffMergePossible: false,
     hasCI: false,
     ciStatus: null,
     sha: '12345678',
@@ -135,14 +136,31 @@ describe('ReadyToMerge', () => {
       expect(findMergeImmediatelyDropdown().exists()).toBe(true);
     });
 
-    it('should return true when the merge train auto merge stategy is available', () => {
-      createComponent({
-        availableAutoMergeStrategies: [MT_MERGE_STRATEGY],
-        headPipeline: { id: 'gid://gitlab/Pipeline/1', path: 'path/to/pipeline', active: false },
-        onlyAllowMergeIfPipelineSucceeds: true,
-      });
+    describe('with merge train auto merge strategy', () => {
+      it.each`
+        ffOnlyEnabled | ffMergePossible | isVisible
+        ${false}      | ${false}        | ${true}
+        ${false}      | ${true}         | ${true}
+        ${true}       | ${false}        | ${false}
+        ${true}       | ${true}         | ${true}
+      `(
+        'with ffOnlyEnabled $ffOnlyEnabled and ffMergePossible $ffMergePossible should be visible: $isVisible',
+        ({ ffOnlyEnabled, ffMergePossible, isVisible }) => {
+          createComponent({
+            availableAutoMergeStrategies: [MT_MERGE_STRATEGY],
+            headPipeline: {
+              id: 'gid://gitlab/Pipeline/1',
+              path: 'path/to/pipeline',
+              active: false,
+            },
+            ffOnlyEnabled,
+            ffMergePossible,
+            onlyAllowMergeIfPipelineSucceeds: true,
+          });
 
-      expect(findMergeImmediatelyDropdown().exists()).toBe(true);
+          expect(findMergeImmediatelyDropdown().exists()).toBe(isVisible);
+        },
+      );
     });
 
     it('should display the new merge dropdown options for merge trains when the skip trains feature flag is enabled', () => {
diff --git a/spec/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity_spec.rb b/spec/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity_spec.rb
index 6b80609c3486254947aa1a3128eb7cf82f3af691..171f2324cf1fd2368f0305d4c48260771ec9ea68 100644
--- a/spec/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/serializers/merge_request_poll_widget_entity_spec.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
       .to eq(resource.default_merge_commit_message(include_description: true))
   end
 
+  it { is_expected.to include(ff_only_enabled: false) }
+  it { is_expected.to include(ff_merge_possible: false) }
+
   describe 'new_blob_path' do
     context 'when user can push to project' do
       it 'returns path' do