I guess my original post was a little confusining. Before we even applied for the I-130, we had no plans of going back to the U.S. and were wanting to start a life in Brazil. This is when we applied for the tourist visa so we could at least have the option of seeing my family in the U.S. for Christmas and whatnot.
However, after his denial for the tourist visa we had another conversation. We decided that since he would have no way of going to the U.S. to see my family and therefore my parents would be basically forced to travel to Brazil to see us, we started looking into the I-130. We decided that maybe moving to the U.S. would be better for us in the long run, and that's when we started the process for the I-130.
But when we first applied for the tourist visa, we were already married, have apartment contracts together in Brazil, bank accounts here, my husband was working and had his own business here in Brazil. So to us, we had all the evidence in the world that we (he) would return to the U.S. simply due to the fact that we were married and had no immigration visa process going on, all we wanted was a tourist visa to visit family in the U.S. periodically. We thought that would show the consular officers that we really had no intention of using the tourist visa for any illegal purpose and we would return to Brazil. However that wasn't the case and he was denied. So now we're almost at the one year mark in the I-130 process and we're just hoping something happens soon