USCIS officer 0205
Updated: Author: Alina Kanametova
Number 0205 on your notice is an adjudicating desk, not a person. Our set holds 5 cases from it: 2 parsed notices and 3 coded cases.
What arrived
- RFE5
Center: Texas (3). Years: 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
Most often questioned
Accepted: Published material about you (1), Judging (1), Scholarly authorship (1).
Fields the cases came from
- education1
- sciences1
- arts1
The field split across our cases from this desk. A desk is not assigned by field - this reflects who filed, not what the desk specializes in.
These counts do NOT show how often this desk approves. The data holds only cases that already drew a request or refusal; petitions approved without questions never appear. You cannot choose or change your desk.
Why this criterion gets refused
The grounds officers actually rely on when they refuse this criterion, and how often it survives.
Among petitions that drew an RFE, NOID or denial and claimed this criterion, the officer accepted it in 14% of cases (23 of 160).
This is not an approval rate. The sample is petitions that were challenged, so it says how often a claimed criterion survived scrutiny - nothing about how often EB-1A petitions succeed overall.
Based on: 253 coded USCIS I-140 notices (RFE, NOID, denial) · updated Sep 6, 2026 · RFE by criterion
It is not shown that the pay is high RELATIVE to others in the same occupation and location. An amount on its own proves nothing without a comparison base.
The comparison source is not accepted: it needs occupation- and location-matched data, not general market surveys.
Grounds observed across 150 real USCIS notices, summarized in our own words - not quotations from any individual case.
Common questions
What does officer number 0205 mean?
It is the code of an adjudicating desk inside a USCIS service center, not an employee's name. It cannot be resolved to an individual, and USCIS does not publish that information.
What should I focus on if my request came from this desk?
In our data this desk most often questioned: High remuneration, Awards, Membership. That is not a prediction, but a hint about which parts of the response deserve more depth. You still answer the text of your own request.