VIES Validation

We are testing the VIES validation and this works for us but I have a question.

When the VIES service is unavailable we receive an error and the addressbook record is not created.  Is it possible to create the record anyway and do the validation afterwards in batch?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Preferable would be a solution through the standard solution.  A possible workaround is to disaible the online validation and do a batchrun after hours for newly created records and every weekend / month a batchrun to verify that VAT numbers which were once approved stay approved.