Is it normal for the actual CONSUL to review?? Please help

[Rebecca.V 24]

I'm worried sick about our visa.. My fiance had his interview on June 10th and they kept his passport and he paid for the passport/visa to be delivered, but since then we have been in Administrative Processing.

They said our petition needed part 3 of the I-129F completed (which we'd already done through an RFE). In my original petition I failed the check the boxes for criminal history. That's all that we needed!

We both emailed and mailed it to them immediately. Since June 10th, we have received their confirmation of receiving it twice.

The most recent time, in response to our inquiries, they said they forwarded it to the consul for review. That was on June 30th

Is it normal for the actual CONSUL to review K-1 visa paperwork??

The Rio embassy does not have a phone available for immigration questions. If you call, the only option to talk to a person is if you are an American tourist with an emergency (in Brazil) -- it says all immigration questions must be emailed on their voicemail and website.

Any thoughts on why the consul is reviewing our papers? Is this normal? What is taking so long to review 3 checkboxes??

We speculated it had to do with the World Cup but other people interviewed that day or afterwards who were also missing documents have already received their visas in the mail

We have now been almost a month in Administrative Processing due to a few missed check boxes on a paper they should have received from USCIS and we have now sent multiple times.

Should I be worried? Should I try to get my congressperson involved?

Edited July 7, 2014 by ERE&RVV

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Sounds normal to me.

[Rebecca.V 24]

OK, I thought some subordinate just rubberstamped everything? I know the consul isn't the one who conducts the interviews..

My fiance was interviewed by an American guy who did not speak good Portuguese after everyone before him had seen a woman.. I showed him the picture of the consul and he said it wasn't him