diff --git a/apiserver/plane/ee/views/app/issue/duplicate.py b/apiserver/plane/ee/views/app/issue/duplicate.py
index 4f33c5a64c..23276b9d40 100644
--- a/apiserver/plane/ee/views/app/issue/duplicate.py
+++ b/apiserver/plane/ee/views/app/issue/duplicate.py
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ class IssueDuplicateEndpoint(BaseAPIView):
         if not state:
             state = State.objects.filter(project_id=project_id, group="backlog").first()
 
+        duplicated_issue.state_id = state.id
+
         # Fetch all issue types for the destination project once
         destination_issue_types = IssueType.objects.filter(
             project_issue_types__project_id=project_id