Creating new item on list that requires approval without approve permissions

Question

I have a workflow on list A that creates a new item in list B.
However, List B requires content approval, so the approval status field is compulsory, therefore requiring the user to have approve permissions.

As the user does not have appropriate approve permissions, when the workflow attempts to create the list item using the initiator's credentials it is denied access to modify the Approval Status field.

How can I circumvent this without using Visual Studio?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Have items that are copied have a specified Value in some random field like "Copied from List 1", have a seperate workflow in list B look for this value apon new item creatation and set the status to approved. I believe this will work. The second workflow should run as sharepoint\system account