Personally, I don't think I can qualify for SIR yet. I didn't submit my medicals upfront (will do early Nov) and haven't paid the $490 fee yet (I dunno why it didn't occur to me at the time) but I will until the end of the year.
That being said, I did notice on my notes that there's a group no assigned on my app:
Group name: Inland Prospective
Group #: 1-628TNRW
I would be very interested to know if someone else has the same group # (I assume that's how they assign apps to batches), especially
s!nful that submitted the app a week before I did - it's him that I have my eyes on