diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 3971b924277610527b33ac6095506767b702e9d2..aaf818245cddac3cb13d33467237f37ac23ccd34 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
 v 7.13.0 (unreleased)
+  - Fix order of issues imported form GitHub (Hiroyuki Sato)
   - Fix Merge Request webhook to properly fire "merge" action when accepted from the web UI
   - Add `two_factor_enabled` field to admin user API (Stan Hu)
   - Fix invalid timestamps in RSS feeds (Rowan Wookey)
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/github_import/importer.rb b/lib/gitlab/github_import/importer.rb
index 23832b3233ce048bb9b7cc01836bba1421cc9c31..98039a76dcdbfb40d5363a839e13ac3214853df7 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/github_import/importer.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/github_import/importer.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ module Gitlab
 
       def execute
         #Issues && Comments
-        client.list_issues(project.import_source, state: :all).each do |issue|
+        client.list_issues(project.import_source, state: :all,
+                                                  sort: :created,
+                                                  direction: :asc).each do |issue|
           if issue.pull_request.nil?
 
             body = @formatter.author_line(issue.user.login, issue.body)