The short answer
“Issued” is the word Minnesota uses for a license that is live in the state's file as of the snapshot date shown on the page.
It is the status the contractor listings on this site carry, because those pages are built from the current licensees in the state's export.
Why we do not explain it for you
Minnesota does not publish definitions of its status words, so any plain-English gloss we wrote would be our guess at a legal status attached to a named business. We do not do that.
What we do instead: show the state's own word, exactly as issued, with the date of the snapshot it came from and a link to the official record. If the word matters to you, the link is the answer, and the department that issued it is the only place the answer is authoritative.
What to do about it
Ask the contractor. A status word is a fact about a filing, and a business that holds a license usually knows exactly why its record reads the way it does.
Then check the state's lookup yourself while they are standing there. It is free and it takes about a minute.
Where this comes from
The department's copy is the live one. Ours is a dated snapshot, and the date is in the footer.