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Rio de Janeiro's consulate started to require the petitioner's presence at the interview out of nowhere and without following any patterns whatsoever. What they do is to send the beneficiary home with a green envelope in hand requiring that they reschedule the interview to have the petitioner with them. They do this randomly, some people they don't even interview, some they do a lot of questions and don't even ask to look at any evidences and just hand the envelope without saying the reason.
This has never happened before and just started around a month ago.
Have anyone here know what is this all about?? Does any other embassy/consulate in the world started doing that as well?

Don't get a lawyer, get a comgressman involved.
We've been through something similar, our RFE never arived, 15 days later, my fiancé called USCIS and put a service request on it, they said it'd take 30 days just to process the darn service request. Got an infopass and nothing, just another service request. 20 days after the rfe being sent we got a sentor's help. The person responsible for immigration issues gave them a call, talked to some people and all. A week after that, my fiancé got a call from TSC saying that they would disconsider the RFE and approve us anyway. We got our noa 2 that same day, 11 days later our case was shipped to the DOS.
Now, for them to CALL, the senator's person must have done something!
That's my advice.
Good luck.

Don't get a lawyer, get a comgressman involved.
We've been through something similar, our RFE never arived, 15 days later, my fiancé called USCIS and put a service request on it, they said it'd take 30 days just to process the darn service request. Got an infopass and nothing, just another service request. 20 days after the rfe being sent we got a sentor's help. The person responsible for immigration issues gave them a call, talked to some people and all. A week after that, my fiancé got a call from TSC saying that they would disconsider the RFE and approve us anyway. We got our noa 2 that same day, 11 days later our case was shipped to the DOS.
Now, for them to CALL, the senator's person must have done something!
That's my advice.
Good luck.

This RFE thing sucks big time. They should tell you what's all about on the e-mail, so you can take the necessary measures to correct whatever mistake they have found. And all this waiting kills us!
Like i told my fiance, it's like they're saying "Hey! There's something wrong with the petition that decides your future but we're not telling you what it is yet, just wait for 15 days to find out. In the meantime, try not to stalk the mailman much", seriously, I fell that the only thing missing on the email is an evil laugh at the end! :/