Why is it that when an iMessage is sent to my iPhone phone number I don't receive it on my other iOS devices?

I don't receive iMessages on my iPad and iPod touch when a person sends me an iMessage using my phone number. Is this how it is?

@Tommyvercetti, iPod Touch and iPad don't need to have that option, since by default they can only use an email address to send/receive. iPhone needs that option since by default it uses the phone number, so to sync across devices you must change the caller ID to be the email.
When you say "nothing happened", are you saying that messages are not syncing for you?

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Hi guys.
Here's the story.
I had an Unlocked iPhone 4, bought in Brazil and using a brazilian carrier, till recently, and both iMessage and Facetime worked normally, using my apple ID or my phone number.
After I was robbed, I got an iPhone 4S, factory unlocked, bought in the United States, and started using it with my brazilian carrier sim.
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