Have invoice automatically approved wiht status "Approved" rather than "Not required"

Oracle EBS 12.2.7

I’m looking for a way to make an approver automatically approve all invoices that are directed his way.

The general rule is that all invoices entered into AP need to go through approvals (AME). Invoices that meet certain criteria do not need further approval. For example, invoices generated from OIE (Expense), invoices approved in originating systems and then imported into AP or invoices for grants and payments that have been approved outside of Oracle and then imported into AP.

As-is this is dealt with in the standard Oracle workaround: Have a rule that recognizes these invoices and includes an empty approval group so that once passed through the check the AP invoice get’s the status “Not Required”.