Approval status after copying sharepoint issue (help friend)

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It's surely easy...I gonna try to be clear :)
In sharepoint I got 2 lists : list01 and list02
On my list01 I have a workflow.
In the list01, if the approval status of my item is "approved" then I copy the item in list02.
My problem is :
the copied item in my list02 (yet "approved" in list01) have a approval status "waiting for approval"
Strange ?
How to keep it "approved" ? What I do not do well ? I have to change my workflow on list01 ? Create a workflow on list02 ? Settings/configure on my list02 ?
I don't understand this behavior.
Thank you for reading.
Regards

Hi,
The approval status column is a system column, it cannot be copied by workflow.
You can click approve/reject button in the ribbon to approve or reject the new item in list02 manually.
Or you could change the approval status from “waiting for approval” to “approved” by code in the list02.
The article below is about how to update the content approval status column.
https://chanakyajayabalan.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/read-or-update-content-approval-status-column-or-moderation-column-using-sharepoint-client-side-object-modelcsom/
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