diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index eea481642..5c1a4e2ba 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module github.com/codeready-toolchain/toolchain-e2e
 
 require (
-	github.com/codeready-toolchain/api v0.0.0-20250506092100-39b4862e1271
+	github.com/codeready-toolchain/api v0.0.0-20250605152105-383ffe6cac27
 	github.com/codeready-toolchain/toolchain-common v0.0.0-20250506093954-2b65ad3a2e12
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.2-0.20180830191138-d8f796af33cc
 	github.com/fatih/color v1.18.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 1e33e988d..7603f4c89 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ github.com/client9/misspell v0.3.4/go.mod h1:qj6jICC3Q7zFZvVWo7KLAzC3yx5G7kyvSDk
 github.com/cloudflare/circl v1.1.0/go.mod h1:prBCrKB9DV4poKZY1l9zBXg2QJY7mvgRvtMxxK7fi4I=
 github.com/cloudflare/circl v1.3.7 h1:qlCDlTPz2n9fu58M0Nh1J/JzcFpfgkFHHX3O35r5vcU=
 github.com/cloudflare/circl v1.3.7/go.mod h1:sRTcRWXGLrKw6yIGJ+l7amYJFfAXbZG0kBSc8r4zxgA=
-github.com/codeready-toolchain/api v0.0.0-20250506092100-39b4862e1271 h1:AHrFr/aPuJ4+0zHw4sFXcfMA92kChy12JAPS5bLODlw=
-github.com/codeready-toolchain/api v0.0.0-20250506092100-39b4862e1271/go.mod h1:20258od6i5+jP406Z76YaI2ow/vc7URwsDU2bokpkRE=
+github.com/codeready-toolchain/api v0.0.0-20250605152105-383ffe6cac27 h1:g1ivSPPHTC96RHp8S/gRmqODWgoHyivq+/d5kSI0pEs=
+github.com/codeready-toolchain/api v0.0.0-20250605152105-383ffe6cac27/go.mod h1:20258od6i5+jP406Z76YaI2ow/vc7URwsDU2bokpkRE=
 github.com/codeready-toolchain/toolchain-common v0.0.0-20250506093954-2b65ad3a2e12 h1:w54sojJJ8PsHZzK1mC+/EUBrQ9F2sC/k7JUVc8LSqK4=
 github.com/codeready-toolchain/toolchain-common v0.0.0-20250506093954-2b65ad3a2e12/go.mod h1:TrMvD0sP69wI6Rouzfs7OsOUSj4CGn/ZiIdiDBAFQjk=
 github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.4/go.mod h1:tgQtvFlXSQOSOSIRvRPT7W67SCa46tRHOmNcaadrF8o=
diff --git a/test/e2e/parallel/nstemplatetier_test.go b/test/e2e/parallel/nstemplatetier_test.go
index bcb912e16..f950cde2e 100644
--- a/test/e2e/parallel/nstemplatetier_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/parallel/nstemplatetier_test.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ func TestNSTemplateTiers(t *testing.T) {
 	space := user.Space
 
 	// all tiers to check - keep the base as the last one, it will verify downgrade back to the default tier at the end of the test
-	tiersToCheck := []string{"advanced", "baseextendedidling", "baselarge", "test", "appstudio", "appstudiolarge", "appstudio-env", "base1ns", "base1nsnoidling", "base1ns6didler", "intelmedium", "intellarge", "intelxlarge", "base"}
+	tiersToCheck := wait.E2eNSTemplateTiers
 
 	// when the tiers are created during the startup then we can verify them
 	allTiers := &toolchainv1alpha1.NSTemplateTierList{}
@@ -479,7 +479,6 @@ func TestTierTemplateRevision(t *testing.T) {
 				Value: "100",
 			})
 		})
-
 	})
 
 	t.Run("when updating one tiertemplate the revisions field should be cleaned up from old entries", func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -517,7 +516,6 @@ func TestTierTemplateRevision(t *testing.T) {
 		// revisions values should be different compared to the previous ones
 		assert.NotEqual(t, revisionsBeforeUpdate, updatedTier.Status.Revisions)
 	})
-
 }
 
 func getTestCRQ(podsCount string) unstructured.Unstructured {
diff --git a/test/migration/verify/verify_migration_test.go b/test/migration/verify/verify_migration_test.go
index 49bdc93e8..2b23d7106 100644
--- a/test/migration/verify/verify_migration_test.go
+++ b/test/migration/verify/verify_migration_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package verify
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"slices"
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -20,8 +21,10 @@ import (
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
+	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/controller/controllerutil"
 )
 
 func TestAfterMigration(t *testing.T) {
@@ -95,6 +98,7 @@ func runVerifyFunctions(t *testing.T, awaitilities wait.Awaitilities) {
 		func() { verifyDeactivatedSignup(t, awaitilities, deactivatedSignup) },
 		func() { verifyBannedSignup(t, awaitilities, bannedSignup) },
 		func() { verifyAdditionalDeploymentsCreatedUsingSSA(t, &awaitilities) },
+		func() { verifyBundledNSTemplateTiersHaveFinalizer(t, &awaitilities) },
 	}
 
 	// when & then - run all functions in parallel
@@ -270,6 +274,28 @@ func verifyAdditionalDeploymentsCreatedUsingSSA(t *testing.T, awaitilities *wait
 	})
 }
 
+func verifyBundledNSTemplateTiersHaveFinalizer(t *testing.T, awaitilities *wait.Awaitilities) {
+	list := &toolchainv1alpha1.NSTemplateTierList{}
+	require.NoError(t, awaitilities.Host().Client.List(context.TODO(), list, client.InNamespace(awaitilities.Host().Namespace)))
+
+	// e2e tests have custom appstudio tiers
+	assert.GreaterOrEqual(t, len(list.Items), len(wait.BundledNSTemplateTiers))
+
+	unmatchedBundledTiers := make([]string, len(wait.BundledNSTemplateTiers))
+	copy(unmatchedBundledTiers, wait.BundledNSTemplateTiers)
+
+	finalizerName := toolchainv1alpha1.LabelKeyPrefix + "bundled-tier"
+	for _, tier := range list.Items {
+		if controllerutil.ContainsFinalizer(&tier, finalizerName) {
+			if i := slices.Index(unmatchedBundledTiers, tier.Name); i >= 0 {
+				unmatchedBundledTiers = slices.Delete(unmatchedBundledTiers, i, i+1)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	assert.Empty(t, unmatchedBundledTiers)
+}
+
 func checkMURMigratedAndGetSignup(t *testing.T, hostAwait *wait.HostAwaitility, murName string) *toolchainv1alpha1.UserSignup {
 	provisionedMur, err := hostAwait.WithRetryOptions(wait.TimeoutOption(time.Second*120)).WaitForMasterUserRecord(t, murName,
 		wait.UntilMasterUserRecordHasCondition(wait.Provisioned()),
diff --git a/testsupport/wait/host.go b/testsupport/wait/host.go
index 104b03815..5e843ad9c 100644
--- a/testsupport/wait/host.go
+++ b/testsupport/wait/host.go
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ import (
 	"sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client"
 )
 
+var (
+	BundledNSTemplateTiers []string = []string{"advanced", "baseextendedidling", "baselarge", "test", "base1ns", "base1nsnoidling", "base1ns6didler", "intelmedium", "intellarge", "intelxlarge", "base"}
+	E2eNSTemplateTiers     []string = append(BundledNSTemplateTiers, "appstudio", "appstudiolarge", "appstudio-env")
+)
+
 // HostAwaitility the Awaitility for the Host cluster
 type HostAwaitility struct {
 	*Awaitility