Abstract: A mobile communication system and method for maintaining a call setup for a domain transfer are provided. The mobile communication system includes a calling terminal and a VCC server. The calling terminal notifies, when performing a domain transfer during reception of a ring-back tone in a call setup process with a called terminal, the domain transfer to the VCC server, and receives a response message for a call setup request from the VCC server to perform a call connection with the called terminal. The VCC server performs, when receiving a domain transfer notification message from the calling terminal, a call setup process with the domain to which the calling terminal transferred while maintaining the previous call setup process performed before the domain transfer, and releases the previous call setup process.