diff --git a/lib/session/call-session.js b/lib/session/call-session.js
index 400d2bc4..ca743a75 100644
--- a/lib/session/call-session.js
+++ b/lib/session/call-session.js
@@ -482,6 +482,24 @@ class CallSession extends Emitter {
     return this.application.transferredCall === true;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * returns true if this status was already reported to the application by the feature
+   * server that handled the call before it was transferred here.
+   *
+   * A transferred call arrives as a fresh INVITE, so this session runs through trying,
+   * ringing and answered again as it accepts the REFER. The application has already seen
+   * all of those from the original server, so sending them a second time looks like
+   * duplicate events for a call it believes is long since answered.
+   */
+  _isStatusAlreadyReportedBeforeTransfer(callStatus) {
+    return this.isTransferredCall && [
+      CallStatus.Trying,
+      CallStatus.Ringing,
+      CallStatus.EarlyMedia,
+      CallStatus.InProgress
+    ].includes(callStatus);
+  }
+
   /**
    * returns true if this session is an inbound call session
    */
@@ -3151,7 +3169,16 @@ Duration=${duration} `
       sipReasonHeader ?? reasonHeaderFromSipMessage(msg));
     if (typeof duration === 'number') this.callInfo.duration = duration;
     if (headers) this.callInfo.sipHeaders = headers;
-    this.executeStatusCallback(callStatus, sipStatus);
+
+    /* callInfo and the redis call record are still updated below; only the
+       application-facing notification is skipped */
+    if (this._isStatusAlreadyReportedBeforeTransfer(callStatus)) {
+      this.logger.debug({callStatus},
+        'CallSession:_notifyCallStatusChange - suppressing status already sent before transfer');
+    }
+    else {
+      this.executeStatusCallback(callStatus, sipStatus);
+    }
 
     // update calls db
     //this.logger.debug(`updating redis with ${JSON.stringify(this.callInfo)}`);
diff --git a/test/unit/transferred-call-status.test.js b/test/unit/transferred-call-status.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e95385d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/transferred-call-status.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert');
+
+/* call-session decrypts credentials at require time, so it needs a secret present */
+process.env.ENCRYPTION_SECRET = process.env.ENCRYPTION_SECRET || 'foobar';
+process.env.JAMBONES_LOGLEVEL = process.env.JAMBONES_LOGLEVEL || 'error';
+
+const CallSession = require('../../lib/session/call-session');
+const {CallStatus} = require('../../lib/utils/constants');
+
+/* a CallSession is far too entangled to construct here, and none of what
+   _notifyCallStatusChange touches needs the constructor to have run */
+const makeSession = ({transferredCall = false, recordAllCalls = false} = {}) => {
+  const calls = {statusCallback: [], redis: [], callInfo: [], recorderStarted: 0, recorderStopped: 0};
+  const session = Object.create(CallSession.prototype);
+
+  Object.assign(session, {
+    callMoved: false,
+    notifiedComplete: false,
+    serviceUrl: 'http://127.0.0.1:3000',
+    application: {transferredCall, record_all_calls: false},
+    accountInfo: {account: {record_all_calls: recordAllCalls}},
+    backgroundTaskManager: {
+      newTask: (name) => {
+        if (name === 'record') calls.recorderStarted++;
+      },
+      stop: (name) => {
+        if (name === 'record') calls.recorderStopped++;
+      }
+    },
+    callInfo: {
+      updateCallStatus: (...args) => calls.callInfo.push(args),
+      toJSON: () => ({callStatus: 'x'})
+    },
+    logger: {debug: () => {}, info: () => {}, error: () => {}},
+    executeStatusCallback: (callStatus, sipStatus) => calls.statusCallback.push({callStatus, sipStatus}),
+    updateCallStatus: async (obj) => {
+      calls.redis.push(obj);
+    }
+  });
+
+  return {session, calls};
+};
+
+const notified = (calls) => calls.statusCallback.map(({callStatus}) => callStatus);
+
+const EARLY_STATUSES = [
+  [CallStatus.Trying, 100],
+  [CallStatus.Ringing, 180],
+  [CallStatus.EarlyMedia, 183],
+  [CallStatus.InProgress, 200]
+];
+
+test('a transferred call does not re-notify statuses the first server already sent', async () => {
+  const {session, calls} = makeSession({transferredCall: true});
+
+  for (const [callStatus, sipStatus] of EARLY_STATUSES) {
+    await session._notifyCallStatusChange({callStatus, sipStatus});
+  }
+
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(notified(calls), [],
+    'no early status should reach the application for a transferred call');
+});
+
+test('a normal call still notifies every one of those statuses', async () => {
+  const {session, calls} = makeSession({transferredCall: false});
+
+  for (const [callStatus, sipStatus] of EARLY_STATUSES) {
+    await session._notifyCallStatusChange({callStatus, sipStatus});
+  }
+
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(notified(calls), EARLY_STATUSES.map(([s]) => s),
+    'suppression must apply only to transferred calls');
+});
+
+test('a transferred call still notifies completion', async () => {
+  const {session, calls} = makeSession({transferredCall: true});
+
+  await session._notifyCallStatusChange({callStatus: CallStatus.Completed, sipStatus: 200, duration: 12});
+
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(notified(calls), [CallStatus.Completed],
+    'only the statuses sent before the transfer are duplicates');
+});
+
+test('suppressing the notification still updates callInfo and the redis call record', async () => {
+  const {session, calls} = makeSession({transferredCall: true});
+
+  await session._notifyCallStatusChange({callStatus: CallStatus.InProgress, sipStatus: 200});
+
+  assert.strictEqual(calls.statusCallback.length, 0);
+  assert.strictEqual(calls.callInfo.length, 1, 'callInfo must still track the status');
+  assert.strictEqual(calls.redis.length, 1, 'the call record must still be written to redis');
+});
+
+test('suppressing the notification still starts record-all-calls', async () => {
+  const {session, calls} = makeSession({transferredCall: true, recordAllCalls: true});
+
+  await session._notifyCallStatusChange({callStatus: CallStatus.InProgress, sipStatus: 200});
+
+  assert.strictEqual(calls.statusCallback.length, 0);
+  assert.strictEqual(calls.recorderStarted, 1,
+    'answering a transferred call must still start recording when record_all_calls is set');
+});