Create a new Status when creating an issue

[Prashant Bhosale]

Basically I am migrating to Jira and in current system we have around 10 custom statuses. I can create a status manually but how can I do this in automated way using API or any other method.

[Vasiliy Zverev]

The only way to change issue status in Jira is to make a transiton.

So, you should crate a workflow and after issue creation make respective transiton to set it into requared status.