Application is working on JBOSS Seam

I have a user registration screen which has almost 50 fields, in which I have used seam validator, required field attribute and some custom validator.... to validate the fields...
I also have a "Save and Exit" Button, on click of which I am not suppose to validate any of these, and just persist the data entered on the screen.

I cannot use the "immediate" attribute set to true for the submit button, as the other field data will not be populated into the backing bean.

I planned to write a phaselistener... Which will skip the Phase_validation lifecycle of the JSF, where the actual validation happens
I am not able to bypass the PHASE_VALIDATION, however I am able to capture the event before and after... but not able to skip that.....


Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Rahul