have the hold invoices skip the invoice WF approval process imported through REST API

Problem Description

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We have invoices created through interface import in ERP with a Hold on them . The source of these invoices were part of AP_SKIP_SOA_APPROVAL lookup hence they skipped the invoices approval process and we were able to account these invoices since they were already approved and Needs revalidation' state

However we have a new process now where invoices are created through REST API in ERP with same hold, We need to have them workflow approved(skip the WF approval process) as it used to happen before when imported through interface but since we cannot use this skip functionality for manually created or invoices created through REST API as per the document (