diff --git a/src/ATen/native/xpu/sycl/ResizeKernel.cpp b/src/ATen/native/xpu/sycl/ResizeKernel.cpp
index 237a1c213..f1ee7f944 100644
--- a/src/ATen/native/xpu/sycl/ResizeKernel.cpp
+++ b/src/ATen/native/xpu/sycl/ResizeKernel.cpp
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ void resize_bytes_xpu(StorageImpl* storage, size_t size_bytes) {
   c10::xpu::XPUGuard guard(device.index());
   at::DataPtr data = allocator->allocate(size_bytes);
   if (storage->data_ptr()) {
-    auto q = at::xpu::getCurrentSYCLQueue();
+    at::globalContext().lazyInitDevice(c10::DeviceType::XPU);
 
+    auto q = at::xpu::getCurrentSYCLQueue();
     q.memcpy(
         data.get(), storage->data(), std::min(storage->nbytes(), size_bytes));
   }
diff --git a/src/ATen/xpu/EmptyTensor.cpp b/src/ATen/xpu/EmptyTensor.cpp
index 3f5e998f8..6411bb221 100644
--- a/src/ATen/xpu/EmptyTensor.cpp
+++ b/src/ATen/xpu/EmptyTensor.cpp
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ TensorBase empty_strided_xpu(
     IntArrayRef stride,
     ScalarType dtype,
     c10::optional<Device> device_opt) {
+  at::globalContext().lazyInitDevice(c10::DeviceType::XPU);
   const auto device = device_or_default(device_opt);
   TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT(device.is_xpu());
   const c10::DeviceGuard device_guard(device);