My wife lives in Colombia and we filed the I-130 in December 2024. While returning from one of my monthly trips to Colombia, one of the CBP agents asked me why didn't I apply for a visitor visa for her for a few months instead of traveling so much. I took that into consideration and we applied for her visitor visa.
She has a lot of strong ties to Colombia: Family, our apartment, her leadership role in the church, a few businesses, contracts that are pending/in progress, and other property.
She had her interview in Bogota on Friday June 13th, and was denied the visitor visa. They weren't interested in much of the documentation that she had with her, other than our marriage license and the I-130 receipt notice. The main focus was the fact that she had an I-130 in progress and that was the reason for the denial.
They essentially told her to wait for her marriage visa.