jealous? angry?

hey did anyone here before they got their work permit was like angry or jealous that there younger or older siblings coould drive and work? or jealous of your friends?

no, why bother investing those negative vibes when one has to worry about moving forward. actually my cousin that applied after me got approved before me, but I was glad and happy for her, but I knew she would easily get approved since she had a straight forward case. =D
were you mad? jealous?

The steps to permanently end jealous reactions are:
1) Recovering personal power so that you can get control of your emotions and refrain from the reactive behavior.
2) Shift your point of view so that you can step back from the story in your mind. This will give you a gap of time in which to refrain from a jealous or angry reaction and do something else.
3) Identify the core beliefs that trigger the emotional reaction.
4) Become aware that the beliefs in your mind are not true. This is different than “knowing” intellectually that the stories are not true.
5) Develop control over your attention so you can consciously choose what story plays in your mind and what emotions you feel.

Nope, long hair don't care.

I didn't know of anyone else

Nope, I actually advised my friend to apply long before I did (he was approved 6 months before I applied), and did it again with another friend when I applied, I rushed him to apply and to step up, rather than do nothing.

well i meant the ones who have the papers. not the ones who had to apply for DACA with you.

Middle child here. Both my younger and older siblings are USC's and have been for a while. I actually am glad it's me suffering and not them (like Jeebus) but I admit when I see them in their lives and they don't seem that concerned with people in my situation or how dumb and spoiled their kids are, I do get jealous and think I could have done so much more than them if I had papers.

I guess for the other types of undocumented folks who have younger siblings who were born here, there is more friction.

Unlike the good people before me, yes, I feel jealous, angry and bitter. But not toward anyone whom I grow up with, or share similar situation as me/us. My emotions are largely toward those came to the US on pretense and got their legal status within a year.

I have know two such people in my personal life and my parents/friends knows many more. Those who came to US for education, for visitation, and once they stepped into the US soil, they would apply political or religious asylum and were granted in very short time.. I have personally known a person who is two years younger than me got his asylum within three month he step in to the US soil.

He doesn't speak a single word of English, and have no desire to learn (that mostly is not his fault, as his father wanted him to work, to bring money into the family).

So, yes, every time I see him with his temporary status (he will be granted green card in a year), it just pains me...

Some people gamble and win, others lose. While I know people who game the system through asylum and got green, I also know people who lost the asylum process and got sent home. For this guy it would have been better to stay undoc and flew below the radar because he got good pay in cash, but he wanted more peace of mind, and ended up going home.

I also know a couple of guys who got it by fake marriages. Knowing how prodding an experienced immigration officer can be, I think they lucked out and got a lax interviewer.